Category Archives: ZigBee

Ember Corporation began shipping EmberZNet 2.0. The second-generation ZigBee protocol stack is designed to support application profiles for home controls and user-defined network applications, according to the company. Via [wirelessweek.com]… Continue Reading

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced it is the first test and measurement equipment manufacturer to join the ZigBee Alliance, an association of more than 100 companies working to enable cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. Via [eetimes.com]… Continue Reading

Smart homes that monitor elderly residents’ every move, networked sprinkler systems that run for seven years on a single battery, radio-equipped windows that call you up if they break — according to boosters of an emerging low-power wireless technology, such applications are about to come to your local home-supply megastore. Via [wired.com]… Continue Reading

Ember Corp., a startup developer of Zigbee wireless chips for embedded systems, has opened a new facility in Cambridge, England, to house an expanded radio IC design team and a business development team serving Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Via [eet.com]… Continue Reading

ZigBee devices are moving up in integration and down in cost, signaling a potential takeoff for the wireless networking technology. Ember Corp. is ramping up production of what it says is the first single-chip ZigBee solution, as well as its second-generation ZigBee software stack, EmberZNet 2.0. Via [designnews.com]… Continue Reading

The ZigBee Alliance has made its namesake specification publicly available so that universities, research institutions, companies, and individuals will be able to access the specification and develop applications for noncommercial purposes. Via [edn.com]… Continue Reading

Several companies are about to begin vying to win control of your home. They donâ€™t want to tell you what to do. Rather, they want to come in where home automation vendor X10 left off. They want to automate your light switches, thermostat, security system, and sprinkler system. They want their chips in your universal… Continue Reading